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Tampon tax: Does being female in the US carry unfair costs?

NEW YORK (AP) — Margo Seibert and Natalie Brasington don’t think women should have to pay a “period tax,” and like a growing number of…

States reduce jobless checks, adding pressure to unemployed

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — When Demetrius White recently lost his job as a $10-an-hour forklift driver loading pallets of shampoo, he applied for unemployment…

Pennsylvania’s embattled attorney general won’t run again

SCRANTON, Pa. (AP) — Pennsylvania’s embattled attorney general said Tuesday she will not seek a second term, facing pressure from within her own party after…

Some Detroit schools closed again due to teacher absences

 DETROIT (AP) — Some Detroit schools were closed again Wednesday due to the absence of teachers, but it was the smallest number since a so-called…

Maine governor sorry for remark about ‘young White’ girls

AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — Republican Gov. Paul LePage apologized Friday for his remark about out-of-state drug dealers impregnating “young White” girls, calling it a slip…

Ford Calls for Federal Investigation

Ford Calls for Federal Investigation of State’s Attorney’s Office of Cook County  State Representative La Shawn K. Ford, D-Chicago, is calling for a federal investigation…

Grocery chains leave food deserts barren, AP analysis finds

EATONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — As part of Michelle Obama’s healthy eating initiative, a group of major food retailers promised in 2011 to open or expand…

Kentucky’s new lieutenant governor, 1st Black statewide officeholder touts outsider status

FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) _ Growing up in Detroit, in the years when she had a television, Jenean Hampton would use pancakes to bribe her friends…

Ferguson protests influence actions at U. of Missouri

COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — When cotton balls were scattered outside the Black culture center at the University of Missouri’s flagship campus in 2010 in a…

Pennsylvania Porn scandal: Top prosecutor keeps releasing raunchy emails

 HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Facing criminal charges, relieved of her law license and threatened with removal by the Legislature, Pennsylvania’s attorney general seems to have…

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